((New post, because it is good for the universe. I would like to applaud all of the Cravat's fine members for not making a home/Holmes pun, nor yet a Holmesosexual pun. Not yet.))

Location: The CravatTime: Out of time

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson stumbled out of the portal, Watson still a little wide eyed at the prospect of time travel, Holmes retaining his famous composure. They stood in wait of the others, avoiding each other's eyes.

"It's odd, really. I'm usually the cynical one." Gabe glanced over to the source of his optimism and noticed a particularly uncomfortable look on Watson's face. He laughed. "I think our conversations have both ended up in the same place," he remarked.

Holmes glanced over at his friend, then gave a surprised, almost reflexive laugh. "Yes, they definitely have," he chuckled. "He only gives that particular expression of humiliation when he has just said the word 'sodomy.'"

"No," Holmes replied, "it wasn't. We did not speak of it. I have only seen that look once or twice, perhaps three times. And no, I do not shudder. It's only a criminal offense." He shrugged. "I deal with many, in my work."

"Moriarty has made something of a special case of me, I should like to think," Holmes said, smiling ironically. "I have spent the vast majority of my time in the past few months trying with remarkable effort to get him killed, or put away for life at the very least, and consequently he dislikes me quite a bit. He does deal in blackmail, yes, and often, but his victims are far too often too ashamed to come to me. They have no guarantee, you see, that I will not simply blackmail them."

"Funny," Gabe remarked. "That it seems you don't have half the reputation you have in your own time that you do in mine, when it's totally useless." He shrugged. "I guess they're right when they say you can only really be famous after you die."

"Oh, I have something resembling fame - nothing remarkable." Holmes grinned ruefully. "I am not sure that I should like to become a figure of renown. I confess myself surprised that I am conceived as such in your time."